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Val

He used to drink twenty-two pints a day, and I knew, I had this horrible feeling in my stomach when he was on his way home. I was suffering extreme domestic violence, I’d been nearly killed three times, so I decided to get revenge. I turned to the Yardies for protection, and whatever him and his family did to me in the day, I did back to them on the night. When I went to prison, it was fuck all, it was sanctuary.

Craig

The first morning, they opened the door. They didn’t say, ‘go and get your breakfast,’ they just opened the door. I put me head out all cautious like, is this a trick? I saw all these cons in their jeans and blue striped shirts and I followed them to the kitchen area and everybody was staring at us. I assumed they knew the worst, so from day one, I was expecting to get battered.

Colin

I didn’t get any sleep, they questioned me day and night, the psychiatrist stopped it because I wasn’t in a fit state to continue. I had no conception of time but I was told afterwards it was two weeks. The law says you can only be held for a day or two, so they kept putting a video camera in front of me and the judge gave them more time. Then I was rushed to a secure remand unit inside a prison, where I was on remand and in isolation, apart from suited and booted prison guards, for almost a year. It was hell on earth.